Deep ecology and radical environmentalism

Abstract

Abstract The principles of deep ecology and its philosophical critique of reform environmentalism are reviewed, and the relationship between deep ecology and radical environmentalism is described. Major radical environmental groups such as Earth First!, Greenpeace, Sea Shepherd Society, and the Rainforest Action Network are analyzed in terms of their organization, strategies, and tactics. The last section includes a discussion of the mounting environmental “counter‐movement”; and possible changes in the radical environmental movement.